"lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?"" The jury reportedly found this question amusing, and it has been described as the ""first nail in the prosecution's coffin"". A procession of eminent defence witnesses attested to the worth of the novel, and Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity on 2 November. In 1963 he was the prosecuting counsel in the trial of Stephen Ward, who was accused of living off the immoral earnings of Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies following the Profumo affair. Ward took a"
"years' imprisonment. By this time, Ward was facing trial on vice charges, and again Keeler was a main prosecution witness. Ward's trial, which ran from 22–31 July 1963, has been characterised as ""an act of political revenge"" for the embarrassment caused to the government. He was accused of living off the avails of prostitution (immoral earnings, in U.K. law) earned through Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, on the basis of the small contributions to household expenses or loan repayments the two had made to Ward while living with him. Ward's professional earnings as an osteopath were a substantial £5,500 a year"
"the police began to investigate Ward. In June 1963 he was charged with immorality offences and committed to trial. In the trial that followed, in July 1963, Ward was abandoned by his society friends and exposed to the contempt and hostility of prosecuting counsel and judge. Despite the relative paucity of evidence and the dismissal of most of the charges against him, he was convicted on two counts of living off immoral earnings. However, before the verdict was announced, Ward took an overdose of sleeping pills and died three days later. In 2014 the trial verdict was put under review"
"summer to fall of 2014. The former location had been used since 1907. After Larry Nassar, USA Gymnastics national team osteopathic physician, was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison in January 2018 for sexually abusing female athletes, the prosecutor in the case specifically praised ""The Indianapolis Star"" for uncovering Nassar's decades-long history of abuse. The ""Star"" began its investigative reporting into Nassar and USA Gymnastics in 2016 and published its first related article in August 2016 when it shed light on USA Gymnastics' failure to properly investigate credible complaints of sexual abuse or pass the complaints on to"
"Stephen Ward Stephen Thomas Ward (19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963) was an English osteopath and artist who was one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British political scandal which brought about the resignation of John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and contributed to the defeat of the Conservative government a year later. In 1945 Ward began practising osteopathy in London, and rapidly became successful and fashionable, with many distinguished clients. In his spare time he also studied at the Slade School, and developed a talent for sketching portraits which provided a profitable"
"of new nudist clubs, often leading legal challenges fighting local officials trying to block nudist centers in their area. He encouraged regimens of calisthenics, abstinence (alcohol), nudity regardless of the weather, and vegetarianism for all members and their guests, in addition to his beliefs of healthful benefits derived from nudity, sunbathing, and exercise. In 1965, the park was purchased by Psychologist Oliver York for $120,000. It continued on for another two decades until health violations of the aging buildings forced its closure by the city. Following his ordination, Boone served a number of pastorates and wrote a number of books"
"physician Andrew Taylor Still founded the American School of Osteopathy in Kirksville, MO as a protest against the present medical system. A. T. Still believed that the conventional medical system lacked credible efficacy, was morally corrupt, and treated effects rather than causes of disease. Throughout the 1900s, DOs fought to gain practice rights and government recognition. The first state to pass such regulations allowing DOs medical practice rights was California in 1901, the last was Nebraska in 1989. Up through the 1960s, osteopathic medicine was labeled a cult by the American Medical Association, and collaboration by physicians with osteopathic practitioners"
"Larry Nassar Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) is an American convicted serial child molester who was the USA Gymnastics national team doctor and an osteopathic physician at Michigan State University. Nassar's cumulative criminal acts of sexual assault were the basis of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal, in which he was accused of molesting at least 250 girls and young women and 1 young man including a number of well-known Olympic gymnasts, dating as far back as 1992. He has admitted to at least ten of the accusations. In July 2017, Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in"
"better physician and surgeon than any of the French physicians in Paris. By being a better physician and surgeon as well as not charging patients if her treatments were unsuccessful, she seemed to anger male physicians. At the end of the trial, Jacqueline Felice de Almania was found guilty and was threatened with excommunication if she was ever caught practicing medicine again. She was also banned from practicing medicine, although it is unknown if she continued to be a medical healer after the trial, and she was handed a fine of 60 Parisian pounds. The prosecution's case was based upon"
"that restoring these vertebrae to their proper alignment would restore health. By 1902 the school had graduated 15 chiropractors. In 1906, Palmer was prosecuted under the new medical arts law in Iowa for practicing medicine without a license, and chose to go to jail instead of paying the fine. As a result, he spent 17 days in jail, but then elected to pay the fine. Shortly thereafter, he sold the school of chiropractic to his son, B. J. Palmer. With the help of an arbitration committee, the deal was settled for $2,196.79, various books, and some specimens from the osteological"
"of fraud in 1957, but even before then he was exposed as a hypocrite. A photographer for the ""Houston Press"" caught Hohensee in a restaurant gorging himself on processed bread and fried fish and quenching his thirst with beer."" In 1962, he was given an eighteen-month prison term for selling honey under false pretences. Adolphus Hohensee Adolphus Hohensee (1901-1967) was a famous fraudulent nutritionist and quack from the twentieth century. Hohensee described himself as a doctor but held no valid qualifications. It was discovered that his ""Doctor of Naturopathy"" degree was obtained from two schools he never attended. He campaigned"
"a dietitian and osteopath until 1920. In 1917 a Whanganui newspaper reported that she held a practicing certificate from the Medical Board of the state of Washington. Because she used the title Doctor she was charged in Auckland under the Medical Practitioners Act for practicing medicine while not registered to do so, found guilty and fined ₤5 plus costs (approximately NZ$600 plus costs or US$462.13 plus costs in 2014). In 1920, she returned to Olalla, Washington, and opened a new sanitarium, known publicly as a ""school of health"" since her medical license had been revoked, and continued to supervise fasts"
"located on the hospital grounds. In 1963, he illegally diverted $16,564 in Medicare funds to help in the construction of El Cid Castle, a bowling alley which resembled a Moorish Castle. Hall had been performing unsanctioned medical operations, and his physician's license was revoked in 1971 after four patients died during gastric bypass surgery. In 1974, he pleaded guilty to diverting thousands of dollars in Medicare funds to help build the castle. Hall was bankrupt, and in 1982, El Cid Castle bowling alley, which took 20 years to build, closed after only one year of operation. Hall lost the building"
"professions was often ""bitterly contentious"" and involved ""strong efforts"" by medical organizations to discredit osteopathic medicine. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the policy of the American Medical Association labeled osteopathic medicine as a cult. The AMA code of ethics declared it unethical for a medical physician to voluntarily associate with an osteopath. One notable advocate for the fledgling movement was Mark Twain. Manipulative treatments had purportedly alleviated the symptoms of his daughter Jean's epilepsy as well as Twain's own chronic bronchitis. In 1909, he spoke before the New York State Assembly at a hearing regarding the practice"
"chiropractic was controversial amongst the established medical orthodoxy. Chiropractors were jailed for ""practicing medicine without a license"" which the profession designed a legal and political defence against prosecution arguing that chiropractic was ""separate and distinct from medicine"", asserting that chiropractors ""analyzed"" rather than ""diagnosed"", and ""adjusted"" subluxations rather than ""treated"" disease. In 1963 the American Medical Association formed a ""Committee on Quackery"" designed to ""contain and eliminate"" the chiropractic profession. In 1966, the AMA referred to chiropractic an ""unscientific cult"" and until 1980 and held that it was unethical for medical doctors to associate themselves with ""unscientific practitioners"". Then in"
"Pier Paolo Brega Massone Pier Paolo Brega Massone was the chief thoracic consultant at the Santa Rita medical clinic in Milan, Italy. In October 2010 he was sentenced to fifteen and a half years in prison for performing unnecessary operations on patients in order to claim payment for them from the Italian state. Seven other doctors at the same clinic were also found guilty at trial. The judge described Brega Massone as ""cruel, malevolent and lacking the slightest sense of human pity"". Brega Massone in turn has stated that he is ""just the scapegoat"" and will appeal. On 9 April"
"Pristina. The found that the Medicus Clinic recruited poor people from across eastern Europe and central Asia, promising them 15,000 euro for their organs. The trade was discovered when a Turkish man collapsed after having one of his kidneys removed at the clinic. The clinic's director, urologist Lutfi Dervishi was sentenced to eight years in prison for organised crime and human trafficking. His son, Arban, was sentenced to seven years and three months, while three other defendants received between one and three years' imprisonment. Meanwhile, two former government officials also charged in the case have been cleared of involvement. In"
"Kurt Donsbach Kurt Walter Donsbach (born December 1, 1935) is an unlicensed chiropractor and a controversial alternative medicine figure who has twice been convicted of practicing medicine without a license. He has faced charges of misbranding drugs for sale, grand theft, unlawfully dispensing drugs as a cure for cancer, and falsely representing a cure for cancer. Donsbach was the founder of Hospital Santa Monica in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. Following the death of Coretta Scott King while under treatment at the clinic in January 2006, the facility was shut down by Mexican health officials. In 1971 Donsbach was convicted of"
"violating public-health ordinances. In 1981, Levenson and his by-then two partners along with Plato’s accountant were tried and convicted for tax evasion. When the prosecutor asked Levenson—who was the only owner to take the stand—why Plato’s kept its accounting records off the premises, Levenson replied, “Where would I keep them, in the swimming pool?” He served an 8-year prison sentence at the Allenwood federal prison. After serving his sentence, Levenson worked in various jobs, such as cab driver. He died in 1999 after a quadruple bypass heart surgery. Plato's Retreat relocated to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where it reopened under the"
"Eastern District of Michigan. In addition to his 30-month prison term, he was sentenced to three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $855,484 in restitution, joint and several with his co-defendants. Fatima Hassan, co-owned a company known as Jos Campau Physical Therapy with Javasundera, pleaded guilty on August 25, 2011, for her role in the Medicare fraud schemes and on May 17, 2012, was sentenced to 48 months in prison. In May 2013, Federal officials charged 89 people including doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals in eight U.S. cities on Tuesday with Medicare fraud schemes that the"
"Dr. Alfred J. Schramm, Executive Secretary of the American College of Osteopathic Physicians, and the only College official who refused to take advantage of the 1962 California legislation allowing an osteopath to convert his degree to an MD. After the death of her fiancé, Carroll W. Blake, Lillian Schramm inherited the bulk of his property, although six of Blake's cousins contested the will, claiming Schramm feigned her love for Blake. Schramm operated a beauty salon at the time of her own death, and left most of her million dollar estate for cancer research. The California State Board of Cosmetology was"
"question the ethics of some exorbitant fees. There have also been legal controversies. For example, in 1955 at a Jack Coe revival service in Miami, Florida, Coe told the parents of a three-year-old boy that he healed their son who had polio. Coe then told the parents to remove the boy's leg braces. However, their son was not cured of polio and removing the braces left the boy in constant pain. As a result, through the efforts of Joseph L. Lewis, Coe was arrested and charged on February 6, 1956 with practicing medicine without a license, a felony in the"
"Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons v. California Medical Ass'n Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons v. California Medical Association, (Cal. App. 2d Dist. 1964) was a legal case between two medical associations in the state of California. The case was under review in California state courts from 1962-1964. After numerous appeals, the California Supreme Court ruling found the California Medical Association's refusal to grant osteopathic physicians licensure to practice medicine in the state of California to be unconstitutional. By the 1950s, osteopathic physicians (D.O.) were numerous in California compared to their Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) counterparts, since the medical school at University of"
"channeled Dr. Fritz, Arigó began to perform operations using scalpels and needles. His reputation soared and spread throughout Brazil after it was alleged that he had removed a cancerous tumor from the lung of a well-known Brazilian senator. Over the next twenty years, thousands of people who mistrusted traditional medicine, or had not found help in it, came to Congonhas in search of a cure. In 1956 Arigó was convicted of illegally practicing medicine. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison, but was pardoned by President of Brazil Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira. In 1962 he was arrested and held"
"Taylor Still, M.D., D.O. was a 19th-century American physician and Civil War surgeon who founded osteopathic medicine. Following the loss of three of his children to spinal meningitis, Still became dissatisfied with contemporary medical practices and sought to further medical understanding and treatment. Still claimed that human illness was rooted in problems with the musculoskeletal system, and that hands-on manipulations could solve these problems and so effect a cure by harnessing the body's own self-repairing potential. Still's proposed treatment regime also included as strong dose of healthy living: he advocated abstinence from alcohol, and patients were forbidden from taking medicine."
"article of evidence. On 3 June 1963, De Saram was convicted along with 11 of the other 24 accused to 10 years in jail as well confiscation of property after laws had been specially modified by the government in order to convict the plotters. The conviction was eventually overruled on appeal to the Privy Council, which ruled that the new Act had denied fair trial. De Saram spent much of the 1970s as a partner of DL and F De Saram and coaching the Royal College, Colombo cricket and rugby teams. He died on 11 April 1983 at age 70."
"Richard Gorringe Dr. Richard Warwick Gorringe, MB, ChB, of Hamilton, New Zealand, was found guilty of ""Professional Misconduct"" and ""Disgraceful Conduct"" in 2003, by the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand in Wellington, which drew upon expert witnesses to consider the application of complementary and alternative medicine. The council ruled as to the lack of any scientific or other objectively determined merit or efficacy for ""Peak Muscle Resistance Testing"" (PMRT) -- also referred to as Bi-Digital O-Ring Testing (BDORT)—or other equivalent forms of Applied Kinesiology. Gorringe was stripped of his license to practice medicine and fined NZ$104,096 in the"
"were actually working for none other than Dr. [George] William Smith Forbes. He was arrested ca. Dec. 15, 1882, and bail was set at $5,000. On March 13, 1883, Forbes went on trial for conspiracy in the grave-robbing charge. He explained that the public demanded that physicians have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and through public laws the courts used malpractice charges to punish those physicians who were deficient. At the same time, strict laws made it impossible for medical students in anatomy courses to obtain legal cadavers in the numbers required. This inevitably gave rise to medical schools paying"
"and was awarded US$300,000 in damages, after he suffered from rhabdomyolysis after performing a CrossFit workout on December 11, 2005, at Manassas World Gym in Manassas, Virginia, under the said trainers' supervision. CrossFit, Inc. was not listed as a defendant in the lawsuit. CrossFit, Inc. does not dispute that its methodology has the potential to cause rhabdomyolysis. The company states that exertional rhabdomyolysis can be found in a wide variety of sports and training populations and argues that its critics have conflated CrossFit's high awareness of rhabdomyolysis with high risk. One CrossFit spokesman stated that ""ESPN's report on the 53"
"1977, and both accused of conspiracy to defraud and obtaining payments through deception amounting to £21,416. Kelly pleaded guilty, promising to testify against Keating. Conversely, Keating pleaded innocent, on the basis that he was never intending to defraud, rather he was simply working under the masters' guidance and in their spirit. The charges were eventually dropped due to his poor health after he was severely injured in a motorcycle accident. He then contracted bronchitis in the hospital, which was exacerbated by a heart ailment and pulmonary disease, leading the doctors to believe that he was not going to survive. The"
"on by a series of disciplinary actions, culminating in his impeachment and resignation in 2009. On May 11, 2009, Judge Kent was sentenced to 33 months in prison for lying to investigators about sexually abusing two female employees. Dick DeGuerin, Kent's attorney, said the judge would retire from the bench because of a disability, rather than resign, which would have enabled Kent to continue to receive his $169,300 annual salary for life. That did not satisfy the leaders of the House Judiciary Committee, Representatives John Conyers Jr., (D-Mich.) and Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), who demanded that Kent resign immediately or face"
"a County Louth woman, Olivia Kearney, who was subjected to a post Caesarean-section symphysiotomy, which was performed by Dr. Gerard Connolly, was awarded €450,000 by the High Court. The Kearney case was appealed to the Irish Supreme Court, which found in favour of Ms. Kearney and declared that symphysiotomy was not a generally approved obstetric practice in 1969. While the Supreme Court reduced the award of damages from €450,000 to €325,000, the decision represented the first court condemnation of the practice of symphysiotomy by an institution of the Irish state. In June 2012 details of Professor Oonagh Walsh's draft report"
"finances which he had managed since 1977 earning her $82 million. On December 21, 2009, Marshall was sentenced to one to three years in New York State prison. Marshall's attorneys appealed, citing jury tampering, but the appeal was rejected. 89 year-old Marshall reported to prison on June 21, 2013. However, after serving just eight weeks of his sentence, the 89-year-old Marshall had grown so sick and frail that he was granted medical parole on August 22, 2013. While in prison he had been repeatedly beaten, starved and denied medication. His health problems included Parkinson’s disease and congestive heart failure; his"